Like the triumphal march of truth which comes in fits and starts and whose course is furious and vexed or at best only circumambulatory, this week through cascading drums, carefully plucked bass, and the squibs and squeals of her tenor sax Zoh Amba alongside William Parker and Francisco Mela recites a motherās hymnal. The drone musician Jon Porras suspends four pieces on single iridescent chords, and Urocerus Gigas of Guttersnipe on her first tape as The Ephemoron Loop collides her formative experiences with shoegaze, rave, and psychedelic drugs into what she describes as a synaesthetic acid bath which cracks open the doors of perception.
Recorded at the onset of 2020 for the experimental music programme Late Junction on BBC Radio 3, now receiving a full release via Cafe OTOās sweeping Otoroku series, Roy Claire Potter and Park Jiha combine Liverpudlian spoken word which deals wittily and wilfully in group dynamics and shared griefs with traditional Korean instrumentation on the yanggeum, saenghwang, and piri. The Catalan vocalist and pianist Marina Herlop scatters choral trills inspired by the Carnatic music of South India, while for his 80th birthday the composer Daniel Schmidt returns to Recital with poetic lied performed by Gamelan Encinal and Mills Student Ensemble.
Esperanza Spalding enlists the great dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade for her latest formwela salve, engaging in the celebration of esteemed elder women alongside artists from the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Xenia Rubinos and Carolina Oliveros of Combo Chimbita share the burden on a rework of āDarkest Hourā, weather snippets and triggered keys are the tools of choice for Florent Ghys, and Jasmine Myra swells our horizons. Wilted Woman covers the grit of Detroit machinery with swathes of glistening kosmische, while tracks by Shabaka, Boldy James, Real Bad Man, and Space Between Clouds complete the roundup.
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Space Between Clouds ā āWide Cornersā
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Daniel Schmidt ā āA River In Deltaā
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Marina Herlop ā āabans abansā
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Zoh Amba ā āMotherās Hymnā (feat. William Parker & Francisco Mela)
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Florent Ghys ā āMĆ©tĆ©osā
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Wilted Woman ā āGlossy Centerā
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Xenia Rubinos & Carolina Oliveros ā āNo Me Dejes Caerā
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The Ephemeron Loop ā āPsychonautic Escapism (Cold Alienation)ā
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Esperanza Spalding ā āFormwela 12ā (feat. Carmen de Lavallade)
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Shabaka ā āCall it a European paradoxā
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Boldy James & Real Bad Man ā ā5 Mississippiā
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Jasmine Myra ā āHorizonsā
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Park Jiha & Roy Claire Potter ā āSaenghwang for the milky boysā
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